Murder fractures the facades of small towns
About Murder Comes to Town
Murder Comes to Town is a show that is as quiet as the small towns where the murder cases occurred, murders that fractured their tranquil facades and made residents think twice about leaving their doors unlocked.
Through re-creations (with dialogue), stories told by investigators and victims’ families and friends, a little background on the towns themselves, and sometimes police interviews, episodes detail murders that come to small towns across the US. They range the gamut from drug-related crimes, to crimes between romantic partners, to robberies.
The show is narrated by voice actor Joe Alaskey (a highlight for fans of creepy narration), who sounds like the voice-child of Paul Winfield and Vincent Price. Alaskey reads words like “murder” and “bloody corpse” with a chill that seems to ripple across the screen. Following Alaskey’s death in 2016, actor Anthony Call took over narration duties in the fourth and fifth seasons.
The true crime show is a reserved storyteller that gets the point across without a lot of drama or flash.
The Show Elements
Seasons: 5 (2014-2018)
Where to stream: Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Discovery+, and the Roku Channel
More shows like Murder Comes to Town: City Confidential, Murder in the Heartland, Hometown Homicide, Heartland Homicide
See also this list of true crime shows
✓ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends
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